During the '30s, '40s, and '50s in Florida there were telephone poles along
main roads with multiple crosspieces that had dozens of telephone wires.
REA power poles were separate. Driving along the highway you could hear the
telephone wires "singing". Even after studying electronics, I never figured
out how telephone wires relatively close together "sang". A line in a
popular song, "Wichita Lineman" went: "....I hear you singing in the
wires...". Those of us dating back to the telephone pole era knew what the
singer was talking about.
Gerry
This is interesting. Were they at one time real "telephone poles", owned
and operated by the telephone company? If so, would this have been the old
familiar Bell System of 30 plus years ago?
Or did I have it wrong all these years and the power company owned the
poles? If so, how did the name "telephone pole" originate? There always
seems to be subscriber on this list who knows the answer to these obscure
questions.
As a kid (and later) I remember the phone guy climbing up the pole with
his equipment on a belt and near the top placing a leather strap like a
large belt around the pole so he could lean back and do his job.
He always had a red phone dangling from his tool belt that I understood
allowed him to call anywhere with no long distance fees. Sometimes he'd be
up there for a long time on the phone. Thinking about it now, I'll bet he
was calling his girlfriend.
Jerry
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